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39P/Oterma

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39P/Oterma

Summary

39P/Oterma is a periodic comet[1]. 39P/Oterma draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #21 of 183).[2]

Key Facts

  • 39P/Oterma is credited with the discovery of Liisi Oterma[3].
  • 39P/Oterma's instance of is recorded as periodic comet[4].
  • 39P/Oterma's instance of is recorded as Category:Chiron-type comets[5].
  • 39P/Oterma's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[6].
  • 39P/Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 39P/2001 P3[7].
  • 39P/Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 1958 IV[8].
  • 39P/Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 39P/1943 G1[9].
  • 39P/Oterma's provisional designation is recorded as 1942 VII[10].
  • 39P/Oterma's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1943-04-08T00:00:00Z[11].
  • 39P/Oterma's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0b3g67[12].
  • 39P/Oterma's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 1000177[13].
  • 39P/Oterma's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.228719938260759'}[14].
  • 39P/Oterma's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+6.8'}[15].
  • 39P/Oterma's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.475423254918246'}[16].
  • 39P/Oterma's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+7355.552882608041'}[17].
  • 39P/Oterma's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+303.9493923735856'}[18].
  • 39P/Oterma's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+7.401923578238739'}[19].
  • 39P/Oterma's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.09489108206436'}[20].
  • 39P/Oterma's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+5.708956074413118'}[21].
  • 39P/Oterma's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+89.3722143255865'}[22].
  • 39P/Oterma's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+209.4276232159431'}[23].
  • 39P/Oterma's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 39P[24].
  • 39P/Oterma's epoch is recorded as 4 November 2014[25].
  • 39P/Oterma's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2460042.0085558197'}[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

39P/Oterma is credited with the discovery of Liisi Oterma[3].

Why It Matters

39P/Oterma draws 14 Wikipedia views per month (periodic_comet category, ranking #21 of 183).[2] 39P/Oterma has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27]

Related Entities

Liisi Oterma

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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